Obama and Putin to hold talks at UN

Earlier on, it was reported that the US president has no intention to meet Putin.

KYIV (QHA) -

US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to hold talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, reported RIA Novosti citing the press secretary of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

- Putin will speak at the UN, and then he will hold a conversation with Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General. After he is also due to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama, Peskov told about the leader’s schedule for Sept. 28.

According to the US senior administration officia, despite our profound differences with Moscow, the president believes that it would be irresponsible not to test whether we can make progress through high-level engagement with the Russians

As reported earlier, Putin intends to devote his speech at UN to the subject of the fight against terrorism.